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scripts to be taken from the militia camps, 

 800. 



III. Military force, 844 ; bank circulation, 

 844 ; debt, 844. 



IV. Exemption of State officers, 808 ; views 

 of the Governor, 808; question of arming 

 slaves, 808 ; discussions, 808 ; effect of the 

 war, 808 ; address to the soldiers, 809 ; deso- 

 lation caused by war, 809. 



V. Desolation of the Sbenandoah Valley, 

 814; destruction of farms, 814; destruction 

 in Richmond, 814; defences of Richmond, 815; 

 order of President Johnson reestablishing 

 Federal authority in the State, 815, 816 ; Gov- 

 ernor Pierpont at Alexandria, 816 ; message to 

 the Legislature at Richmond, 816 ; proceedings 

 of the Legislature, 817; letter of Attorney- 

 General Speed, 817; the October election, 817; 

 meeting of the Legislature at Richmond in De- 

 cember, 817; financial condition of the State, 

 817; proceedings of the Legislature, 817, 818; 

 resolution praying the release of Jefferson 

 Davis and others, 818; resolutions relative to 

 reconstruction, 818 ; act against vagrancy, 818; 

 objections of General Terry to the vagrant act, 

 818; registered stock issued by the State, 819; 

 municipal election in Richmond, 819. 



VI. Views of the Governor on labor and 

 immigration, 763 ; State militia, 763 ; debt, 

 763; revenue, 764; literary fund, 764; edu- 

 cation of freedmen, 764 ; acts of the Legisla- 

 ture, 764 ; stay law, 764 ; its constitutionality 

 decided, 764 ; amendment to the Federal Con- 

 stitution, 765 ; case of Dr. Watson, 765 ; mi- 

 gration of negroes to the cotton States, 765 ; 

 civil-rights bill, 765 ; Republican State Con- 

 vention, 766 ; petition for a provisional gov- 

 ernment, 766 ; commerce of Richmond, 766. 



VII. Session of the Legislature, 757 ; extra 

 meeting, 757; message of the Governor, 757; 

 measures for holding a Constitutional Conven- 

 tion, 757; resolutions relative to immigration, 

 757; Virginia included in First Military Dis- 

 trict, 757; orders of General Schofield, 757; 

 registration of voters, 758 ; suspension of elec- 

 tions, 758 ; warning to the editor of the Rich- 

 mond Times, 758 ; convention of the Union 

 Republican party, 758 ; resolutions, 758 ; other 

 political meetings, 759; disbanding of armed 

 organizations, 759; regulations for registra- 

 tion, 759 ; orders relative to exerting the mili- 

 tary power, 759; division of the State into 

 sub-districts, 759; instructions for boards of 



registration, 760 ; amended list of disfranchised 

 officers of the State, 760; result of registra- 

 tion, 761 ; order for an election, 761 ; Con- 

 servative Republicans, 761 ; convention of Un- 

 conditional Union men, 761 ; platform pre- 

 sented by Mr. Botts, 761 ; convention of offi- 

 cers, soldiers, and sailors of the Army and 

 Navy, 761 ; resolutions of the convention, 761 ; 

 policy of General Schofield, 762 ; order re- 

 specting disloyal officers, 762 ; instructions to 

 military commissioners, 762 ; reasons for estab- 

 lishing these commissions, 762; result of the 

 election, 763; arrest of Mr. Hunnicutt, 763; 

 meeting of the Reconstruction Convention, 

 763 ; convention of Conservatives at Richmond, 

 763 ; resolutions of convention, 763 ; public 

 debt, 764. 



VIII. Meeting of the State Constitutional 

 Convention, 758 ; Bill of Rights, 758 ; elective 

 franchise, 758 ; how decided, 759 ; oath of 

 office, 759 ; views of General Schofield, 759 ; 

 registration, 759; public schools, 759; delay 

 of the election, 760 ; Republican Convention, 

 760; resolutions, 760; Conservative Conven- 

 tion, 760 ; resolutions, 760 ; policy of General 

 Schofield, 760 ; his orders, 760, 761 ; Govern- 

 ors, 761 ; Schofield's letter to Grant, 761 ; 

 State debt, 762. 



IX. Disqualifying clauses of the new con- 

 stitution, 709 ; discussion in Washington in 

 regard to submitting the constitution to a 

 popular vote, 709; course recommended by 

 President Grant, 709; congressional bill em- 

 bodying the President's recommendations, 709 ; 

 provisions thereof, 709 ; proclamation of the 

 President fixing the time for the election, and 

 submitting certain clauses to a separate vote, 

 709 ; joint resolution of Congress for the re-, 

 moval from office of those unable to take the 

 test-oath, 710; order of General Stoneman 

 making the removals, 710; difficulty of obtain- 

 ing competent men to fill the offices, 710 ; re- 

 moval of Governor Wells, 710 ; appointment 

 of General Canby to the command of the First 

 Military District, 710 ; order of General Canby 

 requiring all officers of the provisional govern- 

 ment to take the test-oath, 711 ; reorganiza- 

 tion of the military divisions of the State, 711 ; 

 regulations for conducting the election, 711 ; 

 classes of persons disqualified from voting, 

 711 ; political canvass-parties, 711 ; conven- 

 tion of Republican delegates, 711 ; nominations 

 and resolutions, 711 ; action of dissenting dele- 



